Glee 3.06

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1. I don't think I realized all of that was happening this episode. God, I am so glad Santana is getting this plot, that it's not just about Brittany and that we're skewering American politicas in the process.

2. Foreshadowing about NYADA -- Kurt and Rachel aren't going together. I think Rachel's not going to get in, and/or Kurt will get in, but defer or not go. The certainty everyone has about Rachel getting in is the giveaway she won't.

3. Finn, YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE. His passive-aggressive shit with Blaine is AWFUL (and Blaine can go toe to toe with him on that while happening to be in the right). His thing with Santana -- I get it, I get that he wasn't thinking and was impatient, but NOT COOL. There were grounds for Kurt to out Karofsky and he didn't. There were NO grounds for Finn to do that.

4. Blaine and Kurt protecting Rory. Here, the gay boys being friendly and protective of the straight boy, all of them violating the guy rules that Finn laid out for Rory, and yet, geez, it's non-toxic, will you look at that?

5. Kurt's equestrian outfit. Bet Blaine was carrying his school bag in front of him all day.

6. Okay, that leather turban thing? WHAT THE FUCK? Can anyone parse that horror?

7. Did Kurt and Blaine swap outfit pieces (newsboy cap, waistcoast, and possibly shirt) halfway through the episode? Hahahahahahaha.

8. Rachel, doing right and making it all about herself.

9. My conviction Kurt will get into NYADA came when he took the mic off the stand and started walking around with it, no matter how awkward that speech was.

10. Klaine holding hands in the choir room.

11. Quinn, vicious and terrifying again. But will it go anywhere.

12. The campaign ads were hilarious!

13. Burt better win.

14. That Adele mashup was so fucking incredible. And I'm glad Santana slapped Finn.

15. Kurt's body language with Rachel during hug and after. Maybe this is just me, but he seemed less physically comfortable with her than usual. Kurt's weird about physicality in lots of ways, always has been. But head-canon tells me he can't stand to touch anyone but Blaine right now and that's not about desire, but desire remembered.

16. Blaine and those shorts. More with the random feminine positioning of him in relation to others.

17. This episode was more on the surface than many have been lately, and that's not bad. Digging for what makes sense or is interesting on this show, while always fun, can also be pretty exhausting and should be an OPTION for how we watch TV, not a requirement for any cogency.

18. Puck. Shelby. Yes, but whatever.

19. I think half this episode had to be inexplicable and probably not funny to anyone under 30 ("Hot for Teacher" and the Hall & Oats thing, which was, frankly, terrible).

20. FENCING WITH THE FUCKING MIC STANDS.

Comments

[dizzieblonde.livejournal.com]

Can I just say Kurt's outfits, for the majority of this episode, were insane! That first one - I wondered where he'd left his pony, he was wearing an actual riding helmet (and was it Blaine's old polo helmet perhaps?)! He has to be wearing hats now, given his previous obsession with impeccably groomed hair, to cover up the fact the Blaine is messing it up before, during and after school with sneaked quickies. The changing into each other's clothes would back that up too.

But fuck yes for Blaine owning Finn, when Finn tried his douchebaggery out in the choir room. And Kurt's compassionate, almost maternal side coming out with the youngest kid in the room - we saw that quite a bit last season in the wake of Burt's heart attack (BTW, I thought Burt was on his way to a stroke this episode - this better not happen). All the anvils are clanging around for the NYADA thing to be a bust for one or both of them - yes I think Rachel, but with Kurt choosing to defer his acceptance for some reason. Shelby saying that she got beaten out for roles by NYADA graduates indicates that, even Shelby, with her years of Broadway experience, wasn't as good as these fabled NYADA students.

Naya was incredible in her storyline - of course Santana was a total bitch, who took the whole thing too far, but Finn's outing, and that video - oh god, my heart broke. Oh yeah, the fall-out in the Hudmel family when those two get home from school - not pretty, probably going the way you envisioned it, and yet I'm really hoping someone writes a good fic about it!

And this is where the campaign now becomes about the candidates' and their families/friends' sexualities. Kurt's name will inevitably get dragged into the debate, Sue is probably screwing Cooter to reassure the voters that she's straight and everything becomes about LGBTQ issues. I really don't have masses of faith that Glee can address this perfectly, but I hope they keep this rooted in some realism. It was a strange episode, lacking the cohesive stoytelling combined with visuals and music of last week, it got jittery and jumpy but I actually liked it for that - plus the dodgeball scene was so much fun. Last week can't be beaten, for me, but I love what the writers are doing this year. Execution wasn't perfect (Glee, please learn consistency) but it's set so many things up for an explosive couple of episodes to come.